CMBB v CMAK

[Mad Russian]

In English the backbone means the hard part. Not necessarily the most numerous part. The hard part of the Soviet tank force were the T-34 and KV-1's. They were, as you have pointed out, at times, not the most

For me the word backbone would normally refer to the most numerous type.

Which is not to say I'm exclusively right, just that there is more than one view of what the word means in English. Actually I've never heard (or at least I don't recall) the word used as you use it.

Well then...let's take a look at things that have backbones.


Is the backbone the most numerous part of the body? Or is it just the hardest part of the body?

I never heard it referred to as the most numerous part. That was always called the bulk.

The bulk of Soviet tank forces were the T-26's and BT's. The backbone of Soviet tank forces were the T-34 and KV.

Just as in the 1942 German tank forces, the bulk of them were PzIII's and PzIV's but the backbone was the Tiger I.

As Tanker said. It may just be semantics.

Good Hunting.

MR